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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

There's a real mischievousness about Irishmen, don't you find?

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.

Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

I'm just a true Irish boy at heart.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.